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By Maggie FickREUTERS • Saturday January 4, 2014 7:23 AM

Enlarge ImageRequest to buy this photoAHMED ABD EL LATIF | EL SHOROUKPlainclothes police grapple with a supporter of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi during one of several clashes in Cairo and across Egypt. Police arrested 122 yesterday.

CAIRO — Eleven people were fatally shot as supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood clashed with
police across Egypt yesterday, defying an ever-widening crackdown on the movement that ruled the
country until six months ago.

Islamists opposed to the army’s overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi in July have been holding
daily demonstrations, even after the army-backed government declared his Brotherhood a terrorist
group last week, increasing the penalties for dissent.

The government is using the new classification to detain hundreds of Brotherhood supporters.
Thousands more, including top leaders of the group, have been in jail for months, arrested in the
aftermath of the army takeover.

Yesterday in the Cairo district of Nasr City, riot police in bulletproof vests fired tear gas at
protesters throwing fireworks and stones. Similar clashes erupted across the country.

The Health Ministry said three protesters were killed in different districts in Cairo. A
security source said they died from bullet wounds, though it was unclear who had shot them.

In a separate incident, showing the deepening divisions since Morsi was ousted, a man yelling
insults at pro-Brotherhood demonstrators marching near his house was fatally shot by the
protesters, a security source said.

A male protester and a woman were shot dead in the coastal city of Alexandria, medical and
security sources said. It was unclear whether the woman was a protester or an onlooker.

Another demonstrator was fatally shot by police in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia after a march
set off from a mosque after midday prayers, medical sources said.

In the rural province of Fayoum, southwest of Cairo, three protesters, including a student, died
from bullet wounds to the chest and head, local Health Ministry official Medhat Shukri said.

Another university student was fatally shot during clashes in the southern town of Minya.

The Health Ministry said 42 people were wounded nationwide.

Police arrested 122 Brotherhood members for possession of weapons, the Interior Ministry said in
a statement. The Brotherhood said its supporters are unarmed.